synfinatic

Woot.

tcpreplay

3.0.1 on time!

I’m happy to release that 3.0.1 is not only out, but released on time… pretty amazing if you ask me. :) Anyways, this release has a number of fixes, most of which were bugs filed by users, so a big thanks to everyone who found a bug and

Politics

It's Loyalty Day! :(

A friend of mine pointed this out to me: For everyone who thinks we’re not trending towards facism, I give you Loyalty Day. As a reminder, it’s the fourth anniversary of Mission Accomplished Day. Usually I’d find things like this rather funny in a cynical sort of

tcpreplay

RFC: 802.11 support

So 3.1 development has already started, and based on numerous user requests, one of the first tasks was adding IEEE 802.11 support. If you are someone who is interested in 802.11 support in tcpreplay, please take a few minutes to read this and write a reply. Your

Cool

3.0.0 final(ly) released

I’m happy to announce that tcpreplay 3.0.0 has officially been released. 3.0 is a complete rewrite of the old 2.x branch which is now officially EOL. During the 3.0 rewrite I had four main goals: 1. Clean up and reorganize the code to make

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He's dead Jim!

So about two years ago I started telling everyone to stop emailing me at aturner@pobox.com. It’s still rather amusing that people occasionally use that address, but I figure if you haven’t figured it out by now, I’m pretty sure the only thing that will teach

tcpreplay

RC1 is out!

Once again, I paid someone a lot of money to do my taxes. Honestly, it’s the best $750 I spend each year. The US gov’t does a great job making taxes complicated even for people like me who aren’t worth millions of dollars or are trying to

Code

I hate proprietary formats...

I don’t understand why Samsung decided to use a semi-proprietary file format for their X205L/X210L series of camcorders, but they did. Obviously, they wised up to this mistake since they’ve released the X300L which uses standard DIVX encoding. But for those of you like me who have

tcpreplay

Looking for Win32 beta testers

For the past month or so, I’ve been working on getting tcpreplay working under Windows systems (Windows XP specifically). I’m happy to say that I’ve made good progress and now I’m looking for a few beta testers to try it out in a more “real world”

tcpreplay

3.0.beta13 is out

Hot off my keyboard, beta13 is out. It’s actually the exact same tarball as the pre-release since nobody complained about any bugs, so I hereby declare it having fewer bugs then the last release, which is actually saying something. Anyways, in this release I snuck in early Win32 support.

tcpreplay

Pre-release of Beta13 available

So the endian issues in tcprewrite seem to be causing a lot of people grief, so I’ve decided to release a beta13 before RC1. However, since this wasn’t a planned release, some RC1 tickets are half done and incomplete. It doesn’t seem like this will cause anyone

It's Funny

How not to treat developers

I’m not sure what happened last week, but it seems that the difficult users all decided to come out of the woodwork all at once. Maybe it had something to do with the phase of the moon or the change in daylight savings time? For those of you not

tcpreplay

Win32/Cygwin working

I’m happy to announce that I’ve used tcpreplay to send packets under WinXP/Cygwin. I have to say, the port has gone a lot smoother then I expected. I’d guess that getting basic functionality working was probably about 25-50 lines of code (most of that GNU Autoconf)

tcpreplay

Windows support?

So I was looking at the tcpreplay download statistics and I made a very unexpected realization: roughly 30% of the downloads in the last 12 months were for the Windows version. This was very surprising for a variety of reasons: 1. It’s unsupported 2. It’s for an old

tcpreplay

tcpreplay 3.0.beta12 released!

I’m happy to announce that 3.0.beta12 is finally out. This is a pretty important release because of the extensive changes to how different DLT/Layer2’s are supported in tcprewrite. In the past it was a big block of monolithic code which as many of you know

Cool

DLT plugin API now ready!

So during the superbowl, I finished up the final touches on the DLT plugin API and got the first plugin fully working (ethernet of course). Why should you care? If you’re not interested in adding support for a DLT to tcprewrite, you probaby care only because it makes it

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Saw that one coming

So I’m in the market for a small camcorder. After doing some research, I settled on a model (Samsung X210L) and started looking for the best price. Most online retailers I was familiar with were in the $400-$500 range, but one store (GearXSmall.us.com) was $340! Once

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Well that was just a little harder...

Upgraded to WordPress 2.1. Was mostly a smooth upgrade, but of course not everything was plug & play. Apparently there were some slight API changes which broke the right sidebar, but after reading the developer docs things fell into place. Anyways, things seem back in one piece. Doesn’t

tcpreplay

IA64 binaries now available

Thanks to Hewlett-Packard’s Linux Expertise Center, I’ve been able to make IA-64 binaries available for tcpreplay 2.3.5. Please note that these binaries were provided by HP and neither I nor any of the tcpreplay contributors support them. Furthermore, I seriously doubt that HP supports them either,

Code

Multithreaded server in 5 lines? Damn.

Ok, last post was a rant was about how Ruby sucks. This post is about how damned cool it is. Long story short, I needed to switch some code from a fork() model to multithreaded or select(). I really wasn’t excited about working with threads or Ruby’s rather

Code

No destructor? WTF?

Ok, I’ll the be first to admit that I’m no OO guru. Most of my OO coding has been done in Perl for heaven’s sake. I’ve also dabbled a little in C++. Now I’m learning Ruby. Ruby has some really cool idioms and features which

tcpreplay

41 downloads/day?

I was just browsing SourceForge and noticed that they seem to have (finally) fixed the project stats. Anyways, I decided to check out the tcpreplay stats for the last two months. Did the math and people are downloading tcpreplay 40.9 times on average per day. Wow. Honestly, I didn’

Politics

linky

Three things I’ve read recently that you should too: The 10 most outrageous civil liberty violations of 2006 Trey & Matt interviewed by Reason magazine TSA “security” measures are internally inconsistent

Photography

Truth vs. Reality

I just got done reading Alain Briot’s article titled Just Say Yes. If you shoot digital photography, I highly recommend you read it… go ahead, I’ll wait. Done? Good! Well I’m going to guess that most digital photographers started out like me. Originally I wanted to accurately

tcpreplay

Libnet... dead?

Just got an email from Freshmeat saying that they’ve de-listed the libnet library from their database. Sure enough, www.packetfactory.net is offline. Anyways, I’ve emailed Mike to see what’s going on. Until then I’ve uploaded my last copy of the source code to here: libnet-1.

It's Funny

When UPS's fail

Yes, synfin.net was offline for about 8-1/2 hours due to my UPS failing. Oh the irony! Not sure why it’s dead, but it won’t even supply power when plugged into AC. So, everything hooked up to my UPS (my firewall and server) went offline just after